Every monday.
“Timesheet”
Our time sheet system sends an automated email every monday between midnight and 4 am telling us we have unapproved time cards, usually from last week.
The system also won’t allow you to approve them before finishing time on friday.
There are around 30000 people receiving these emails. Around 12 000 people don’t even have ready access to their email accounts. And time cards are filled in automatically based on swipe in/swipe out, and approved by shift lead. Another 8000 (including me) don’t have an official start or finish time and time cards simply exist to make sure we get paid…
Because despite their manager knowing about the new hires for three weeks, they chose to notify IT and Facilities at 4:57pm on the Friday ahead of them starting on Monday.
My first employer didn’t even notify them until after i’d started and filled in a massive stack of security stuff. This was even after i’d been on a grad training scheme for 4 months, regularly in discussions with my future manager.
They then took a further 4 months.
In that time I’d actually joined the local cycling club, done a few of their events, befriended some guys in the club, worked out that Glenn worked in IT support for my employer, asked a couple of Q’s of him, so he popped up and connected me, then got a mate to create the correct accounts and get me in the system. Connected me to MoD and DoD servers and so on.
Then the guy who got the actual ticket rolled up and asked why everything seemed to already have been done…
The department was eventually contracted out to a third party and things got worse. (The penalty clauses that were in the contract meant that they were paying my employer over a million quid a week, on a contract worth 90 million a year).
